SEATTLE and SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Immune Design (Nasdaq:IMDZ), a clinical-stage immunotherapy company focused on oncology, today reported financial results and a corporate update for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017.
“During the first quarter of the year, we were pleased to complete enrollment in the first randomized studies for each of CMB305 and G100, an important milestone for Immune Design,” said Carlos Paya, M.D., Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Immune Design. “We hope that the emerging biomarker and clinical data that we intend to present starting at ASCO and continuing throughout 2017, may form the initial foundation to support commercialization of novel and safe immunotherapies for selected cancer patients.”
Recent Highlights
Product Development: Two Phase 2 randomized studies fully enrolled; multiple ASCO presentations; Orphan Drug status for G100 in follicular NHL
Antigen Specific Immunotherapy: CMB305 Program
Antigen Agnostic Intratumoral Immunotherapy: G100 Program
Financial Results
First Quarter
Cash Guidance
Based on current expectations, Immune Design continues to expect to have cash to fund operations into the second half of 2018.
Conference Call Information
Immune Design will host a conference call and live audio webcast this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time / 5:00 p.m. Eastern time to discuss the first quarter 2017 financial results and provide a corporate update.
The live call may be accessed by dialing 844-266-9538 for domestic callers and 216-562-0391 for international callers. A live webcast of the call will be available online from the investor relations section of the company website at http://ir.immunedesign.com/events.cfm. A telephone replay of the call will be available for five days by dialing 855-859-2056 for domestic callers or 404-537-3406 for international callers and entering the conference code: 20090178.
An archived copy of the webcast will be available on Immune Design's website beginning approximately two hours after the conference call. Immune Design will maintain an archived replay of the webcast on its website for at least 30 days after the conference call.
About Immune Design
Immune Design is a clinical-stage immunotherapy company employing next-generation in vivo approaches to enable the body's immune system to fight chronic diseases. The company's technologies are engineered to activate the immune system's natural ability to generate and/or expand antigen-specific cytotoxic T cells, while also enhancing other immune effectors, to fight cancer and other chronic diseases. CMB305 and G100, the two leading product candidates focused in cancer immunotherapy, are the first products from its two separate discovery platforms targeting dendritic cells in vivo, ZVex® and GLAAS®. Both ZVex and GLAAS also have potential applications in infectious disease and allergy as demonstrated by ongoing pharmaceutical collaborations. Immune Design has offices in Seattle and South San Francisco. For more information, visit www.immunedesign.com.
Cautionary Note on Forward-looking Statements
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Immune Design Corp. | ||||||
Selected Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet Data | ||||||
(In Thousands) | ||||||
March 31, 2017 | December 31, 2016 | |||||
(unaudited) | ||||||
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 27,918 | $ | 45,214 | ||
Short-term investments | 61,991 | 62,041 | ||||
Other receivables | 146 | 3,156 | ||||
Total assets | 99,882 | 114,495 | ||||
Total current liabilities | 14,753 | 19,263 | ||||
Total stockholders' equity | 85,066 | 95,176 |
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss Data | ||||||||||
(In Thousands Except Per Share Amounts) | ||||||||||
Three Months Ended | ||||||||||
March 31, | ||||||||||
2017 | 2016 | |||||||||
(unaudited) | ||||||||||
Revenues: | ||||||||||
Product sales | $ | 261 | $ | 7 | ||||||
Collaborative revenue | 5,204 | 1,856 | ||||||||
Total revenues | 5,465 | 1,863 | ||||||||
Operating expenses: | ||||||||||
Cost of product sales | 37 | 22 | ||||||||
Research and development | 14,038 | 10,570 | ||||||||
General and administrative | 4,135 | 3,914 | ||||||||
Total operating expenses | 18,210 | 14,506 | ||||||||
Loss from operations | (12,745 | ) | (12,643 | ) | ||||||
Interest and other income | 125 | 349 | ||||||||
Net loss | $ | (12,620 | ) | $ | (12,294 | ) | ||||
Other comprehensive income (loss): | ||||||||||
Unrealized (loss) gain on investments | (23 | ) | 20 | |||||||
Comprehensive loss: | $ | (12,643 | ) | $ | (12,274 | ) | ||||
Basic and diluted net loss per share | $ | (0.50 | ) | $ | (0.61 | ) | ||||
Weighted-average shares used to compute basic and diluted net loss per share | 25,463,202 | 20,153,202 | ||||||||